Tag archive: Queen

According to unofficial tracking conducted by Google+ watcher and Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, the upstart social network is rapidly gaining new users and recently passed 62 million users as of December 25. He also estimates that approximately 625,000 people are signing up for Google+ each day and the network will likely break through 100 million users by late February 2012. Assuming that the current rate of growth continues over the next… Read More

News dribblets about Activision's Guitar Hero franchise are falling with the regularity of a broken faucet: first the company announces three new games—including DJ Hero—then casually mentions it's looking into developing a Guitar Hero reality television series or concert tour package. Now, Activision has more-or-less confirmed what most people in the gaming industry knew already: following on the heels of Guitar… Read More

Whatever your views on President Obama, you can’t say he doesn’t use technology. On his visit to London for the gigantic G20 Summit, he brought modern gifts for the Prime Minister and the Queen. Although his present for Prime Minister Gordon Brown was perhaps dubious – a collection of great American movies that might not actually play without a multi-region DVD player – he scored a hit with the Queen. He… Read More

Well before the creation of the world wide web, there was the "open hypermedia system" Microcosm, put together at the University of Southampton in the UK by Wendy Hall – then just 32 – and her colleagues in 1984. Just 10 years later she became the first female professor of engineering at the university, and in 2000 she was made a CBE for her services to science and technology. Now the woman who is deemed one… Read More

Hot, or H*t? If you were on the UK iTunes site at the right time last week, you’d have wondered what was so bad about the word hot that it needed to be censored. Or what poor old Johnny Cash had done to become J****y Cash. An Apple spokesman told the BBC there had been a “database glitch,” which happened when iTunes check for explicit references, and that he had no idea why the software had picked on innocent words, but… Read More

If you just had to run out to see the film version of the musical Mamma Mia!—or, perhaps, got dragged there against your will—online music service Napster hopes you were sufficiently swayed by the the Swedish disco-pop of 70s supergroup ABBA that you'll want to own their signature tunes for yourself. In fact, why stop with just the well-known hits like “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen,” and “Take a… Read More

Bill was and is unique in this industry and changed a lot over the course of time he ran Microsoft. He started out as one of the barbarians challenging the hated status quo and eventually became a part of the new hated status quo for the following generation. He, and Microsoft, provide a cautionary tale for Google in that just as Google has positioned itself with its “do no evil” model as the anti-Microsoft, Microsoft… Read More

Search around on YouTube and you’ll see something new – The Royal Channel, which was launched(without a trumpet fanfare) yesterday.   Yes, the Queen has finally caught up with technology, not a bad leap from someone who only got her first PC two years ago. To be fair, she’s hardlydone the work herself, since there are undoubtedly royal IT people among the court flunkeys these days. She was persuaded to launch a YouTube… Read More

Did you know MySpace did video? No, not the low quality clips you can add to your page, but real video, like YouTube. Turns out it does, and this week it’s relaunching the service, all polished up, in a separate site, and with the new name MySpace TV.   It will be open to everyone, not just MySpace members, with an emphasis on professional, rather than user-generated, video (there will be ample ways for MySpace members to bring the… Read More

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who gave us the world wide web, has received yet another honor.   The Queen of England has granted Berners-Lee the Order of Merit, one of Britain’s most prestigious awards, generally given for remarkable contributions to the arts or sciences. In 2004 he wasalso named Greatest Briton.   The Order of Merit is restricted to 24 living members, who have the right to use OM after their names, and the award… Read More

Former Disney chief Michael Eisner has apparently set his sights on the Internet, announcing the formation of a new indepenent studio Vuguru with the mission to create and distribute original digital content. Vuguru intends to establish itself as as the leader in high-quality, story-driven content for the Internet which, “up until now,” could only be found in movies and television. “In the past few years, the development… Read More

Guppy Games Corporation and ZIO Interactive signed a deal that names Guppy Games as the sole distributor for both North and South America of many ZIO Interactive mobile games. The agreement includes games such as Metalion 3D, Jump Girls, Train Master, and Dancing Queen, which will be available for BREW and J2ME platforms. Also, in the coming years, Guppy plans to distribute other titles by ZIO Interactive. “ZIO Interactive has… Read More